Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-03-15

Handing me the newspaper W. ~ "
member rightly 1t WIS the rue 's,'"
Gaxefte) the khedivc broke out into inc
bitterest abuse agains; Gordon, GAZING
him a mailman, an uugratoiul llar, cue.
What was therefore my astohlsiii,o'i,,
10 learn the next morning that ne IA"
lust cabled to London earnestly re-
auesting the English government 10
lend him Gordon. rs being inc ohy
man who could pacify the Soua'n' VI,
iically proclaiming the abandonment !, OF OF
his African provinces and discussing ms
pr me minister. that most honest Oh
Turks. old Cherif Pasha, because ne
would not consent thereto, ne never
ceased to rail Mt the measure and TO ex-
press his prcvate disapprovnl thereon
Gordon reached Cairo on his way 10
Khartoum on the 23d of January, 1881.
In the morning he saw the khedive at
great length and received the fullest
powers from him as governor general
of the Soudan. The same night AFTER
accompanying the general to the depot
and seeing him start with his scanty
luggage, his extraordinary accoutre-
ment, and his ten thousand cigarettes
on the Journey southwark from when
he never returned, / went to see
Tewtik, and rs | entered the room per-
ceived, greatly to his disgust, Zebehr
Pasha, Gordon's bitterest enemy, beng
smuggled out of the audience cham
Der. Zebehr's favorite son had been
put to death by Gordon. and this king
of slave traders had sworn by all that
x..o, L-1,, - Ia. ro,-an~oj IN hin, The
old mans influence in the African
provinces, his connection with the
great Senouss brotherhood Ito which
Tcwfik is likewise secretly atiiliatcd),
and the fact that although resid ng ut
Cairo he was the prime mover OF the
Soudan Instruction. subsequently be-
came so clear that the English govern
ment were forced to seize him and to
ship him off to Gibraltar, where he
still remains in prison.
Poor Tewfik! ! always think that his
father was right when he remarked to
me about his son that ''he had neither
heart nor head Not content with
having an official agent in England
when the liberals were in power, he
was continually sending over secret
emissaries. generally blunt tools, to
intrigue with the conservatives. and OF
course rs soon us Lord Salisbury as
sumed the reins of government he at
temped the same little game with the
liberals. Needless to add, the English
minister plenipotentiary in Egypt was
fully aware of all this, and nothing
was more amusing than to watch
Tewfik eagerly and unblushingly
swearing by the beard and other por-
tons of the prophets sacred person
that he had never sent anybody to Eng
land, and then to watch the queer,
skeptical smile of Sir Evelyn Barring.
who had the proofs to the contrary in
his pocket. Tewfik thercupon, with
the object of changing this disagreea-
BILE topic Of conversation. and of turn
ing it into channels which he thought
would be more agreeable to the Eng
fish diplomatic, would launch out into
the most bitter abuse of the French
and of their representative. Half an
hour later would find the khedive com
planning to the French plenipotentiary
of Sir Evelyn Barring rudeness and of
the intolerable conduct of the English
in Egypt During the course of the
day he would seek to ingratiate him
self with the German minister by
attacking the French colony, and with
the Russian representative by abusing
the latters German colleague, leaving
them all subsequently to compare
notes. Then in the evening. when the
audiences were at an end. he would
gather around him his native cronies
and begin TO curse all around and in
the most ind scriminate manner those
unclean dogs OF Christians, whose
mothers graves may the p gs defile!'
The query will naturally arse. Why
if thus convinced of his disoyalty does
England insist in maintaining him on
the throne? The reason is not far to
seek. Tewfik' intrigues are so shallow,
so childish, can be SO easily counter
acted and fathomed, that he is simply
invaluable in the role of the dummy
native ruler whom the English require
for their purposes. Were either his
father to be resi- Stored or his brothers
appointed in his place, one would have
TO count with far cleverer and hence
more dangerous men, whose intrigues
would be of much more serious conse
quences. No oriental can exist without
intrigue, but all are not us simple us
Tewtik, who has the habit of stuilinr
all kinds of confidential letters and Sc
cret papers into his coat pockets,
where they are in due course found by
his private valet, IN apparently i'll ter
ate eX-prlvate of one of the regiments
of the army of occupation. The valet,
who has patriotic weakness for whis-
ky, generally spends his spare evenings
with glorious old tippler and Scotch
dentist; and it is astonishing to see the
amount OF attention which the teeth of
the English envoy appears to require.
The extraXagance of his father and
The unfortunate consequences thereof
have had the result of driving Tewlik
into the other extreme, and, although
enormously wealthy through his w fe.
he is incredibly avarcious and mean
IN money matters,-a most unoriental
failing, which has given sc to innu-
merable stories and characteristic anec.
dotes. While ineratiating himself
with the moral severe ems of Europe
by publishing the fact that he has only
one legitimate wife, he does not think
1t necessary to inform them of the
number of his concub.nes. some OF
whom belonged to his father, AMI
whilst publicly deprecating slavery he
secretly encourages it. protecting the
slave-traders, who find their best clients
at the palace.
Before concluding it may DE stated
in palliation of the khedive systematic